Chapter 1374
Dr. Everest hurried over to Zephyr, his steps echoing in the sterile silence of the hospital corridor. “Where’s Lysander?” he asked, his voice laced with urgency.
“In the ER,” Zephyr replied, his voice thick with anxiety.
SAs they spoke, a gurney wheeled out of the ER, carrying the unmoving form of Lysander.
Thalassa’s heart clenched in her chest, and she strained to catch a glimpse of him, desperate for even the slightest reassurance about his condition.
juBut her view was blocked by a sea of sterile blue drapes, creating a barrier that kept her
cfrom seeing what she needed most.
hthe gurney was enveloped in a sterile cocoon, wrapped in those same blue drapes that bobscured Lysander from view. Thalassa’s hope to see him one more time seemed like a xuxury too far out of reach.
Dr. Div Everest quickly gathered his medical team and took charge, hurrying Lysander out of hellodocabhospital’s care.
lepeyhaDavid, and the bodyguards all followed the gurney, a somber procession moving hroughghehe sterile corridors.
halassa sa fought to keep her legs from buckling beneath her, trailing behind them. She eededeo sesée Lysander, if only for a moment.
Richard was as right on their heels, his steps just as hurried.
Outside, in thelspsprawling hospital garden, a helicopter waited. Its size was la verage choppeparand was able to accommodate up to ten people.
Dr. Everest and hellother doctors swiftly loaded Lysander into the helicopter’s d
lephyr climbed aboboard without hesitation, David right behind him.
Once they were securithidhte helicopter took off urgently, followed by other aircraft c werhead, part of a protanective escort for the medical flight.
The thunderous roar of thelengigines reverberated through the small county hospital, a lisplay of power thatshobtakde community.
Onlookers craned their neckskuduriosity piqued by the spectacle, while the more timid hid n the hospital’s corners, fearingithahe worst.
The medical staff, privy to the gravayib of the situation, watched the aircraft disappear into he distance, their expressions aminof ofoworry and breathless anticipation:
Lysander, a man of such stature andnespspect in the community, now lay at death’s door.
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Chapter 1374
If the level of care awaiting him wasn’t up to par, it could mean the end of the line.
Such a remarkable figure, whose legacy seemed almost untouchable, would leave an irreplaceable void if he were to fall.
Thalassa looked up, her breath catching in her throat as the aircraft vanished into the sky. Her body trembled with sorrow, tears swirling in her eyes, her sobs suppressed by a throat constricted with grief.
Those planes carried more than her beloved Lysander; her four children were on board as
well.
In the span of half an hour, everyone she held dear had been whisked away, leaving her alone, staring into the distance, engulfed by despair.
The choppers swiftly became specks in the sky before disappearing altogether.
Thalassa continued to gaze upward at the contrails etched across the sunset sky where the planes had passed.
The setting sun cast a brilliant display of colors across the clouds, the dazzling hues reflecting in Thalassa’s tear-filled eyes, giving them a golden sheen like the waters of a mournful river.
The light glinted off the jade pearl around her neck, making them sparkle with an almost blinding radiance.
Richard, standing beside her, noticed the flash of light reflecting from the jad
“Zephyr will do everything in his power to save Lysander; you don’t need to much,” he said, trying to offer some comfort.
Pulled from her trance of sorrow, Thalassa turned to find Richard beside her. met, the tears she had been holding back spilled over.
Blurring her vision, she hastily wiped away the tears as if ashamed to let Richar so vulnerable.
“Mr. Richard, why didn’t you go with them?” Thalassa asked, her voice cracking, ba more than a hoarse whisper.